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Artefact ID1398
TM IDTM 219253
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Monts.Roca IV 84: Loan contract

Papyrus fragment featuring the left hand upper side of a contract The top and left margins are preserved. It preserves part of a receipt of a loan involving an amount of barley which would presumably indicate that the document is actually a sale on delivery: an amount of money was borrowed and the borrower promised to return this in kind by a delivery of barley. The borrower apparently comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

Recto: cursive hand running along the papyrus fibres. Verso: faint traces of 1 line of text written along the fibres, probably title of document. According to ed., a cross precedes it.

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from375
Date to425
Dating criteria

Palaeography: dated to late 4th or early 5th c.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Montserrat, Abadia Roca inv. no. 620.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Torallas Tovar, Sofia and Worp, Klaas A. 2014. Greek Papyri from Montserrat (P.Monts.Roca IV). Scripta Orientalia 1, Barcelona, no. 84 with pl.

Authors
Valérie Schram, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2024
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2024, "Artefact ID 1398", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1398
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